I was a news junkie for two days. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I did little else but watch MSNBC, CNN and call up news online and watch YouTube videos. I’ve known news junkies. I once knew a guy in Cleveland who told me when he was at the office or at home, he had a […]
just humor me
Dear Valued Constituent, Whoever You Are
Politics is getting weird. Or should I say weirder. In their quest to be the boy/girl next door and your new third best friend, politicians are hitting the email circuit in their personal pleas for money, support, and well dressed people to show up and pose for pictures with them. Today took the cake, […]
What I Refuse to Move
“Moving is good, because you’re forced to get rid of a lot of stuff that’s been building up over the years.” This is what people are telling me. They say this after they see me walking to the curb on garbage day, sobbing, carrying bags of perfectly good, cool stuff, and dragging the Barbie […]
A Shocking Development
If scientists are sitting around wondering what to solve after Global Warming, I have an idea. Why not figure out why some people are more prone to static electricity than others? It may not seem like such a big problem to you, because you’re not full of charged ions. I am. There are whole […]
You’ll Go Outside and You’ll LIke It
Frozen earth, stiff corpses . . . sledding is just not fun I’ve been doing quite a bit of writing about how important it is to take your kids outside once in a while. (And when I say writing, I mean regular writing – the grown-up writing I do. Not this lark.) The newest […]
Getting the Slip
Have you noticed that no one wears slips anymore? Or am I the only one with static cling and visible underwear? I don’t think so. I haven’t seen a slip for sale in a department store in years, although I try to avoid the underwear department like the plague. I’ve been going through […]